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Richard Welty
rwelty at averillpark.net
Wed Aug 27 01:14:29 UTC 2003
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:59:22 -0400 (EDT) Mark Jeftovic <markjr at easydns.com> wrote:
> Returning 127.0.0.2 on everything would indeed be an ugly way to bow
> out, but its been done before. Another RBL went out the same way
> previously, can't remember which one (was it orbz?)
it was more complicated than that. orbs went away without a clean shutdown
plan, and one of the secondary DNS operators started answering with
127.0.0.2 to try and get people to stop querying his server.
it worked, although with non-trivial pain attached.
richard
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